Free-For-All Friday

[geraineon]

Time for free for all Friday, a day for random chit-chat!

Do you want to talk about the other novels you are reading or find a read-along partner? Practice your Chinese? Request for fics? Ask for beta readers? Just talk about your day?

Go right ahead!

Comments

[geraineon]

Still incredibly tired from my trip, but feeling much more human today after sleeping a lot yesterday and the day before... Hope everyone is doing well!

(Pro-tip: Scheduling [on average] four meetings a day with different people every day, for four days, is incredibly draining especially after a three days train trip! who knew!)

[lee_bella]

Hope you are having a good rest!

[geraineon]

<3

[douqi]

That is incredibly hardcore. Hope you're resting well!

[geraineon]

round of goodbyes, so have to lah XD

thank you!

[lessonsinescapology]

Whoah. Take a good rest!

[geraineon]

<3

[liliacs]

I hope you're resting well!

[geraineon]

<3

[llonkrebboj]

Oh MAN that is a lot. You deserve a nice long holiday from this trip and the visits. Rest well, and may those meetings all go as ideally as possible ^^

[geraineon]

holiday from holidays should be a thing... meetings all went really well and now i am full of Updated Gossip!

[lee_bella]

I just finished writing up the reviews for five of 妄鸦 (Wang Ya)'s danmei novels: Evening Snow (晚来天欲雪), Would You Like to Have a Drink (能饮一杯无), Director of a Suspense Film (悬疑片导演), Arrival (降臨), and Thriller Trainee (惊悚练习生). I've posted the reviews on my DW blog if anyone is interested: link.

[lessonsinescapology]

Thanks! Will take a look.

[liliacs]

Thank you for the reviews! The novels all sound interesting; I think I'm particularly intrigued by Evening Snow.

[llonkrebboj]

I have only read evening snow (of course, naturally xD)! But didn't know the author had so many across different genres. It almost feels like they are trying out each one with alnost classic tropes and their own touch. Will try out the rest when the sickly MC need looses its grip on me 🤣 Thank you so much for the reviews!

I love it when authors use the same surnames for their characters across all their novels. Recently encountered quite a number who do.

[lee_bella]

I'm reminded of the joke about how Shen (as in Scum Villain's Self-Saving System's Shen Qingqui) is one of the most popular surnames in danmei novels, and they tend to be the main characters or love interest.

[geraineon]

Thank you for sharing your reviews!

[hazevi]

I've not touched books except for poetry collections recently. Been practicing drawing, begrudgingly studying for exams (physics, the bane of my existence), being frustrated yet charmed by said poetry.

Oh and also impatiently waiting for Honkai Star Rail to update because I'm enamored with a certain cat thief.

[geraineon]

Haha, I'm impatiently waiting for HSR update too. Quite invested in the story.

Jiayou for your exams!

[lessonsinescapology]

I'm reading this translation over in CG and it is so bad. There's no way a danmei novel would read like a dry technical manual. I'd be pissed if I was the author; not for piracy but that my novel is so badly presented in English.

[llonkrebboj]

👀 Oh no! I'm always a bit disappointed when good novels have translations that are lacking. How can they be shared with friends like this? 🥲 It would be so much worse for authors if they knew! (What's the title of this novel?)

[lessonsinescapology]

I can DM you if you want to know. I don't want to publicly shame anyone but MTL shouldn't be shared as if it's a translation by a person.

[geraineon]

CG has some rather suspect QC... some of them do sound like technical manual or just a first pass super rough translation, alas.

[lessonsinescapology]

I'm not sure they do QC. Many translations they host are clearly MTL but are not labelled as such. Worse, these same people ask for money in the form of donations.

[llonkrebboj]

I'm currently lounging in a starbucks because the train spat us all out one stop from my destination station 🤣 this particular station has a track record of air-con breakdowns resulting in smoke on the platform, so I got out of there asap LOL. Idly reading a book by Wang Li on metre in chinese poetry on the ereader, but I really want to go home and sleep.

[geraineon]

Oh no! Hope the rest of your day went much better than this!